DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Signagelive March 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Signagelive DSE Booth Number – 336 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Signagelive has been providing digital signage solutions for 20 years delivering our first web-hosted network in 1,370 retail locations for the UK National Lottery in 2007. In the last …
UK Startup Adopts Top WordPress Slider For Digital Signage March 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes If you spend anytime working with WordPress and the roughly bazillion commercial themes available to buy and use, you’ve almost certainly come across a plugin in called Revolution Slider. It’s functionality that slides visuals and text onto, usually, the top parts of website, so that a series of messages get cycled through in a rotation, based …
#DSE2017 PR Round-Up – Elo, Bluefox, Navori and Holocube March 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’m not going to write individual posts about all the press pitches I am getting leading into DSE because I don’t have time and 11+ years of doing this tells me the readership for software version releases and new sizes for monitors is pretty teensy. Big news for the vendors and their customers, but overall, not …
Dutch Firm’s LED Panels Replace Regular Acoustic Tiles To Create Full Motion Ceilings March 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes There’s lotsa talk out there about LED taking over from LCD for video walls, and LED being used as the architectural design surface for things like feature walls in retail and corporate lobbies. But how about LED as the ceiling? That’s the premise behind a Dutch company called LedGo – that has has designed lightweight …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Coates March 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Coates DSE Booth Number – 1613 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Having recently launched our headquarters in the USA, DSE will be a great opportunity to show why Coates is the leading digital merchandising provider in more than 35 markets worldwide. Coates …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Francesco Ziliani, Spinetix March 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes SpinetiX has been on the digital signage scene for more than a decade now, and if you are in the business, you may know them as the Swiss guys who market a really nice little aluminum-clad, solid state playback box. They had that 10 years ago, when a lot of signage networks were still going …
DSE 2017 Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone March 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes I tend to think of the mounting solutions guys in the signage industry being a bit like Rodney Dangerfield, the comedian who used to moan about how he got no respect at all. The stuff that holds all those displays in place securely, and gets everything perfectly aligned and tidy, is essential to any job. …
SignStix Latest CMS To Add SoC Support March 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes UK-based SignStix is the latest CMS software firm to go system on chip (SoC), launching a new embedded signage solution based on the new Philips D-Line display series. What I find interesting about Philips’ “smart” signs is the displays actually have two embedded processors – with a dedicated chip for the operation of the display and a separate one …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: AdMobilize March 14, 2017 by Dave Haynes DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS AdMobilize DSE Booth Number – 554 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? We’ve entered into an era where the application and integration of data collection solutions is becoming a critical piece of any digital signage solution. AdMobilize offers a variety of …
DSE 2017 Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks March 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Capital Networks Limited has been a mixer sponsor for many, many years, and has also been a 16:9 sponsoring advertiser for a long, long time. The Toronto-area company was started in 1991 in by Bill Trainor, who still runs Capital, though he’s moved up north to a custom-built place on a golf course, across the road …